> << Derek Raymond's "I Was Dora
Suarez>>
>
> i just finished this book in french and the author
was always known in france
> as robin cook...went to stores inus to try to find
his books under robin cook
> (the english 'version') but nobody could find it in
their computers
> (borders....) should i ask under derek raymond...i
would like to give this as
> presents to friends ...for their
birthday!...
Yes, ask for Derek Raymond. My copy is published in the UK by
Abacus.
There is a blurb from the NY Times Book Review on the front
cover. As
the NYTBR has made a lot of its reviews available on line, I
should
check out their site (sorry --- URL's in my other bookmarks
file).
I've just finished Ellroy's _Blood on the Moon_ (the first in
the Lloyd
Hopkins/LA Noir Trilogy). The similarity between _Blood on
the Moon_
and _I Was Donna Suarez_, in terms of the relationship
between the cop
and the deceased is quite remarkable. Without doing too much
of a
'spoiler', the relationship is one of obsessive love for
the
deceased---way short of necrophilia, but an easy qualifier
for the
'psychologically disturbed' category: the cop showers the
corpse of the
victim (previously unknown to him) with hugs and affectionate
words, and
later the cop's obsessive drive is fuelled by his pledge of
vengeance.
Can anyone say whether this a standard generic feature of the
'serial
killer' cycle?
Eddie Duggan
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